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<blockquote data-quote="Bennett Prescott" data-source="post: 24398" data-attributes="member: 4">Re: Inexpensive Measurement micAndrew,You compared a $100 mic to a $2,000 mic and found they differed? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> The only good way to do that would be to buy 8, measure them all, and return the 4 that are furthest apart. Regardless, in my experience cheap mics are going to be off by 2-3dB at 16kHz. Just know in which direction. You want a real flat mic, you need to buy a real mic. What is your standard for &quot;close&quot;?The cheap mic I use is no longer made.While I love Earthworks, I don&#039;t use any of their mics for measurement because I avoid plastic diaphragms... my mic needs to be flat today, but also tomorrow.The <a href="http://www.rationalacoustics.com/store/microphones.html" target="_blank">Rational Acoustics Store</a> has a wide selection of excellent mics at reasonable prices, the mics available from them were chosen for a reason. I am considering a pair of the Audix TM1 myself.If you want a great mic at half the cost of your 4007 check out <a href="http://www.testmic.com" target="_blank">Ray Rayburn&#039;s stuff</a>. Very pro mic for a reasonable price.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bennett Prescott, post: 24398, member: 4"] Re: Inexpensive Measurement mic Andrew, You compared a $100 mic to a $2,000 mic and found they differed? :D The only good way to do that would be to buy 8, measure them all, and return the 4 that are furthest apart. Regardless, in my experience cheap mics are going to be off by 2-3dB at 16kHz. Just know in which direction. You want a real flat mic, you need to buy a real mic. What is your standard for "close"? The cheap mic I use is no longer made. While I love Earthworks, I don't use any of their mics for measurement because I avoid plastic diaphragms... my mic needs to be flat today, but also tomorrow. The [URL="http://www.rationalacoustics.com/store/microphones.html"]Rational Acoustics Store[/URL] has a wide selection of excellent mics at reasonable prices, the mics available from them were chosen for a reason. I am considering a pair of the Audix TM1 myself. If you want a great mic at half the cost of your 4007 check out [URL="http://www.testmic.com"]Ray Rayburn's stuff[/URL]. Very pro mic for a reasonable price. [/QUOTE]

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